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Antivirus Vendors Crack Down On EBay Licence Cheats
News Two of the world's largest antivirus software vendors are launching legal action against software thieves selling illegal versions of well-known security products on eBay. McAfee takes the sale and distribution of pirated software extremely...
[May 18, 2006, 8:55]
Antivirus Vendors Warn Of Fretheme Worm
News Anti-virus vendors sometimes use different names for worms, and incidents of the W32/frethem.f@mm variant have also been logged in countries such as the US. Antivirus companies have warned users to install patches and signature files to protect...
[June 13, 2002, 9:03]
Antivirus Vendors Crack Down On EBay Licence Cheats
Talkback Trabant probably more apt
[May 18, 2006, 13:54]
Antivirus Vendors Tackle Testing Standards
News Various security companies have banded together to tackle what they claim to be falling standards in the testing of anti-malware applications. The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) was formed on Monday by 25 of the leading players...
[February 4, 2008, 16:08]
Minimal Impact Of Palm Trojan Hides Future Danger
News Antivirus vendors report that the first Trojan horse program to affect the Palm handheld computers poses little tangible threat but highlights a significant future danger. Antivirus vendors have, however, found minimal evidence that the Trojan...
[August 30, 2000, 14:37]
Staying One Step Ahead In The Anti-spam Arms Race
Talkback The main threat for small vendors is the large antivirus vendors, as they have well-established distribution channels. I think we'll see further consolidation of smaller anti-spam vendors. Microsoft recently bought a small antivirus vendor, but I'm...
[June 27, 2004, 15:04]
Enterprise Antivirus 2Q02 MQ: Room For Improvement
White Papers The enterprise antivirus market is composed of vendors that sell enterprise products for detecting, and sometimes cleaning, viruses and other malicious code on a number of platforms. However, enterprises should continue to evaluate antivirus...
[December 24, 2004, 2:00]
Warning Of Gestating Worm
News Email-filtering company MessageLabs has issued an early warning to antivirus vendors that a new mass-mailing worm may be on the march. The filtering company says the timeframe is based on the head-start its vigil over email systems gives it in...
[February 16, 2004, 13:50]
Update: Shockwave Warning Puts UK Firms On Virus Alert
News Antivirus vendors in the UK are advising companies to be on alert this morning after receiving reports of a new nuisance worm dubbed Shockwave spreading from the US and Australia. According to antivirus vendors, the worm then sends an email to the...
[December 1, 2000, 9:59]
Staying A Step Ahead Of Malware
Leader The malware landscape is a notoriously organic environment, with the relationship between virus and antivirus vendors shifting constantly. For the antivirus vendors it is an approach that worked well when virus writers did it for the fame and thus...
[July 26, 2006, 16:55]
'Storm Worm' Slithers On
News Each version also contained the capability to be updated, in an attempt to stay ahead of antivirus vendors. Security vendors believe many home users to have been infected after a large-scale sustained Trojan attack that took place over the weekend.
[January 22, 2007, 13:06]
Global Security Vendors Fail Malware Test
News Antivirus software from three global vendors has failed a major series of malware tests, the VB100. Computer users deserve better than to see a patchy performance from their security vendors. Like Kaspersky's antivirus, F-Secure's Protection...
[June 8, 2007, 12:24]
Slapper Worm Takes On New Forms
News Antivirus vendors are divided over Slapper's potential threat. Several virus vendors reported variants of the original Slapper.worm.A, called Slapper.worm.B, or "Cinik", and Slapper.worm.C, or "Unlock", appearing this week.
[September 25, 2002, 14:58]
Enterprises 'left Vulnerable' For 56 Days This Year
News Security appliance vendor IronPort has hit out at some of the biggest names in the security industry, claiming businesses were left exposed to the worst viruses of the year for a total of 56 days while antivirus vendors scrambled to release patches.
[December 20, 2005, 15:05]
F-Secure Warns Of Archive Protocol Danger
News These archive files break and crash products from at least 40 vendors — including several antivirus vendors… including us. Security vendor F-Secure has warned of multiple critical vulnerabilities in its own and other vendors' products.
[March 19, 2008, 13:07]
Change Of Tactics In War On Viruses
News With an increase in targeted Trojan attacks, where criminal gangs tailor emails to try to fool recipients into running certain applications or visiting Web sites hosting malicious code, some antivirus vendors argue that mail monitoring services...
[March 1, 2006, 14:35]
Klez Worm Variant Infests UK
News Klez.H, as it is called by most antivirus vendors, is a modified version of a worm that has been around for months. However, most antivirus vendors, including Symantec, McAfee and Sophos, have offered Klez.H patches since Wednesday.
[April 19, 2002, 16:23]
Microsoft To Buy Antivirus Software Maker
News Security experts from the 100-employee company will also work to make Windows work better with third-party antivirus vendors' products, Microsoft said. The move is likely to change the competitive landscape for third-party antivirus vendors such as...
[June 10, 2003, 14:19]
Microsoft Security Service To Arrive In June
News If Microsoft had not combined the two, you would still see the mainstream antivirus vendors all trying to premium-price all these things separately," Jaquith said. That space has long been the domain of specialised vendors, led by Symantec and McAfee.
[February 8, 2006, 9:35]
Microsoft's Security Strategy Pilloried
News This move will challenge antivirus vendors that depend heavily on revenue from consumers, such as Symantec, and vendors that derive substantial revenue from up-selling enterprises to antivirus product suites that include desktops and servers, such...
[February 18, 2005, 7:45]
